On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
:
: * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001/06/30 21:41]:
:
: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: > Michael Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: > > AFAIK there is no such documentation. It's merely a tradition that was
: > > carried over from USENET. Very few mail clients seem to do this anymore.
: >
: > AFAIK, the sig separator is documented in the latest Usenet drafts.
: > See <http://www.landfield.com/usefor/>.
:
: More precisely in section 4.3.2. "Body Conventions" of the latest
: Usefor draft:
:
: http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-article-04.txt
Pretty strong language too!
If a poster or posting agent does append such a signature to an
article, it MUST be preceded with a delimiter line containing
(only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one SP (ASCII 32).
--
Eugene Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]